LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Starbucks Anti-Discrimination Training on Sirius XM

By: Joe Madison Show Source: Sirius XM   LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined the Joe Madison Show to discuss her role in the implicit bias training taking place at Starbucks after two black ...

LDF Statement on 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in Texas Voter ID Case

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Related Case or Issue: Veasey vs Abbott   Today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Texas’ current photo voter ID law, S.B. 5, sufficiently remedies discrimination against Black and Latino voters. The decision reverses a ...

‘Engaging in Education Equity’ to Ensure Every Student Truly Succeeds

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‘Engaging in Education Equity’ to Ensure Every Student Truly Succeeds   New toolkit from NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Opportunity Institute and the Dignity in Schools Campaign gives communities resources to impact their schools No Child ...

LDF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments in Texas Voting Rights and Racial Gerrymandering Case

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Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Abbott v. Perez about whether to affirm a three-judge court’s decisions that Texas’s congressional and state legislative redistricting maps, implemented in 2013, unlawfully furthered and maintained the purposeful ...

Three African American Racial Justice Leaders Respond to Starbucks Effort to End Bias In Its Company

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NEW YORK, NY –  Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Heather McGhee, president of Demos released a statement today regarding ...

LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute and National Constitution Center Host Symposium to Commemorate the Fourteenth Amendment

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LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute and National Constitution Center Host Symposium to Commemorate the Fourteenth Amendment  Leading Legal Scholars, Historians, and Civil Rights Advocates Reflect on the Importance of the Amendment Ratified 150 Years Ago The ...

Advocates for Civil and Reproductive Rights Call for Vitter’s Withdrawal

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A coalition of leaders in the reproductive rights and civil rights fields called today for the withdrawal of Wendy Vitter’s nomination for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. ...

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